Needling device for burners.



UNITED STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. SHAW, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PENNSYLVANIAGLOBE GAS LIGHT COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

`NEEDLING| DEVICE.FOR yBURNER-S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,101, dated January31, 1905. -r

' Application filed March 29, 1904. Serial No. 200.654.

To LZZ whom, tm/ay concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. SHAW, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the countyof Philadelphiaand State lofPennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Needling Device forBurners, of which the following is a specication.

Objects of the present invention are to provide a device for needlingburners even when the latter are not readily accessible or when they areobscured by darkness, to provide for conveniently renewing the needle ofthe device, and to make the device not only efficient in operation butalso conveniently portableas, for example, in the pocket.

To these and other ends hereinafter setforth vthe invention, stated ingeneral terms, comprises the improvements to be presently described andfinally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will bemore fully understood from the following description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, formingpart hereof, and inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating, upon a very muchenlarged scale, a needling device embodying features of the invention.Fig. 2 is a side view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view, upona somewhat smaller but still enlarged scale, showing the needling devicein applicationto a burner.

In the drawings, 1 is a needle-guide, and it is adapted for detachableapplication to a burner-sueh, for example, as is indicated at 2 in Fig.3. This needle-guide is provided with a movable needle 3, adapted toenter the burner-orifice 4. This needle-guide l is provided with anopening through which the needle3 works, and it is constructed to centerdle is carried by a spring-arm 7 attached to the handle 8. The arm 7 isshown as equipped with several needles, so that when one is broken orotherwise rendered unfit for use another can be turned down intoposition for working through the hole in the bridge 6.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which this inventionrelates that modifications may be made in details without departing fromtherspirit thereof. Hence- I do not limit myself to the precise mode ofconstruction; but,

- Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A needling device for burners compris- 'ing a ring adapted fordetachable applicationl to a burner and provided with va laterally-eX-tending handle, and a spring-arm secured to the handle, and providedwith a needle arranged centrally of the ring and adapted to enter theburner-oriice, substantially as described.

2. A needling device for burners comprising a flange adapted for detachable application to the burner and provided with a handle and bridge,and a spring-arm connected with thehandle and provided with aneedle`-arranged to work .through an opening in the bridge,substantially as described.

B. A needling device 'for burners comprising a needle-guide adapted fordetachable application to the-burner and provided with-a movable armequipped with several needles projecting in the plane of the arm and ofwhich any one may be positioned perpendicular to the arm tocoperate'with the guide, substan- -tially as described.

ARTHUR E. SHAW.

In presence of- E. V. SHrvLER, K. M. GILLIGAN.

